Telecom News/8th Sept.

 

 

 

 

• BPL Mobile, the Mumbai circle operator at the centre of a battle for control between Vodafone Essar and the Ruias, has applied for a pan-India licence through a subsidiary. This is seen as an attempt by the Ruias to fortify their telecom presence.

 

• Public sector BSNL has announced that it would invest Rs 22,881 crore this fiscal on expanding operations and added that it had awarded a Rs 5,200-crore contract ($1.3 billion) to Swedish equipment major Ericsson for 13.12 million GSM lines.

Autoindia.com moving it headquarters from Trivandrum to Chennai

Autoindia.com moving it headquarters from Trivandrum to Chennai. V. Chandramouli, ex sify Consumer Channels, Content and the Education vertical head will be joining them as a CEO to develop channels and monetize the domain.

Competitors: Indimoto, DriveInside, IndiaAutomobile (Bharatmatrimony Group)AutomartIndia, Bharatautomobiles.

KTwo acquire Adamya

KTwo Technologies, a company founded by successful enterprenur Mr.Anant Koppar(founded kshema technologies and sold it to mPhasis). It is an product development company based at bangalore. KTwo acquired ADAMYA a bluetooth company for a undisclosed sum

OSC : Stress Management

Microsoft : Ravi Venkatesan

Bengalooru Mirror on his way

Bangalore Mirror, a tabloid from TOI Group is ready for Bengalooru
edition. I guess they plan a launch for next week.

Good Luck! Bangalore Mirror

ArcleorMittal's new identity

ArcleorMittal worlds largest steel company created a new identity for their combined entity ArcleorMittal with a new tag line "Tranforming Tomorrow", Arcleor a leading steel giant merged with Mittal Steel last year to form world's largest steel making company

Seventymm acquires madhouse

Seventymm acquires madhouse, Bangalore based seventymm DVD rental service company acquired Delhi based madhouse for undisclosed amount. This acquisition gives access for seventymm to extend their service in northern part of india as well.

A Raja is successor of Dayanidhi Maran, as a Union IT & Communication Minister of India

Raja is successor of Dayanidhi Maran, as a Union IT & Communication Minister of India. 44-year-old Raja is a lawyer by profession and is in his third term in Lok Sabha. He was elected from Perambalur (reserved constituency), Tamil Nadu

PODWORKS - India's largest event is Audio & Video Pod casting

A Workshop Style Unconference
June 9 - 10 - 2007 CHENNAI

Virgin Mobile to start Indian Operations

Virgin mobile plan for joint venture in India region. Currently, they are in look of senior officials for this operations

No more, water scarcity in Chennai

No more, water scarcity in Chennai city. National Institute of Ocean Technology developed world's first floating desalination plant off the chennai coastline.

This plant will produce fresh drinking water from Ocean water and handle the water shortage in costal India.

Desalination Plant will be live in 2008 with a capacity of one million litres per day.

Google to acquire DoubleClick

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced on 13 Apr 2007, a definitive agreement to acquire DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing technology and services, for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management. The acquisition will combine DoubleClick's expertise in ad management technology for media buyers and sellers with Google's leading advertising platform and publisher monetization services.

High Definition Video Company

LifeSize, the high definitions video communication company become a fast growing company is HDVC space.

LifeSize has Bangalore Design Center with focus on software development and contribution to engineering efforts across the company’s high definition video product line.

I guess communication is a notable space for a constant growth in following years

Cisco has seen accolades go to Google in recent years, and the company is bent on changing that

Cisco’s pace of investment is kicking back into ’90s-style high gear again - as said by an analyst

Cisco bought web app hosting firm Reactivity; two social networking software firms, Five Across and Utah Street Networks; and an on-demand app firm, Webex.

On the global front, Cisco invested an undisclosed sum in Ozon, Russia’s Amazon.com, and last December invested $50 million in China Communications Services Corporation Limited, a state-run telecom firm.

“India is both a compelling end market and a compelling source market,” - Hilton Romanski, Head Global Investment Strategy - CISCO

eReveMax set to sell their products in Indian market

eRevMax Technologies has become a pioneer in hotel industries most popular online distribution management tools, RateTiger. With its international client base eRevMax is undertaking a spirited and ambitious challenge this year:

According to Udai Singh Solanki, CIO, "With the help of our international exposure and dynamic local talents, we are putting India on the map and within the perspective of revenue management. We are showing international firms today that India has the potential to provide not only product development and support services, but world-class leading solutions as well"

Joost : Something to watch

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

Joost is started by the founders of Skype

China dominates in manufacturing

China's superior infrastructure led to India losing its bid to build Intel's new $2.5 billion factory.

A decision by Intel to build a $2.5 billion chip factory in China represents a key loss for India, which won't likely see any chip factory projects from major companies this year due to its poor infrastructure.

India, which is best known for its research and development prowess and focus on outsourced services, has been trying to attract chip factory investments to build up its manufacturing talent

The Indian government needs to take more proactive measures on its infrastructure if it hopes to win major companies manufacturing factory projects over the next few years.

Indian ISV's promotes Oracle Fusion Middleware in global market

Oracle has announced that leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across India and Asia Pacific have deployed more than 200 solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware

Google Developer Day

Google Developer Day is a chance for programmers around the world to meet Google’s developer product teams conduct Workshops in 10 countries could be aimed at find new revenue streams in addition to new developers.

Google woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on May 31.

Webby Nominations Announced

2007 Webby Nominees Announced. Vote for Your Favorites.

The Nominees and Official Honorees for the 11th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. See them all and vote for your favorite Nominees in the People's Voice until April, 27th.